Mount Airy Graniteers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:5XL In the first half of

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and rejoined the PCL in 1909 as the Sacts

after an earlier Danville team played as the Tobacconists starting in 1905

Mount Airy Graniteers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:5XL In the first half ofMount Airy, North Carolina, sits on one of the largest open face granite deposits in the world, and its quarrying industry has supplied building stone across the eastern United States since the 1880s. The baseball team adopted the Graniteers name in 1934 as a direct reference to that industry, ran as the Mount Airy Reds from 1935 through 1937, then returned to Graniteers from 1938 through 1941. Gene Handley, playing for the 1936 Reds, batted . 403